Roy Akins was the accounting manager at Zelco, a tire manufacturer, and he played golf with Hugh

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Roy Akins was the accounting manager at Zelco, a tire manufacturer, and he played golf with Hugh Stallings, the CEO, who was something of a celebrity in the ­community. The CEO stood to earn a substantial bonus if Zelco increased net ­income by year- end. Roy was eager to get into Hugh’s elite social circle; he boasted to Hugh that he knew some accounting tricks that could increase company income by simply revising a few journal entries for rental payments on storage units. At the end of the year, Roy changed the debits from “ rent expense” to “ prepaid rent” on several entries. Later, Hugh got his bonus, and the deviations were never discovered.


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1. How did the change in the journal entries affect the net income of the company at year- end?

2. Who gained and who lost as a result of these actions?


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Horngrens Financial and Managerial Accounting

ISBN: 978-0133255584

4th Edition

Authors: Tracie L. Nobles, Brenda L. Mattison, Ella Mae Matsumura

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